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Meeting a true military hero

Listening to President Barrack Obama’s speech at Arlington Cemetary on POTUS, XM Radio 124, I enjoyed the banter of the show’s host talking about Medal of Honor winners. He had met several Medal of Honor winners, and was amazed at how all had said “they had just done their job.”

I had Chief Hopkins speak before on one of his unit’s missions in Afghanistan. He had mentioned a MSgt. Ned Maybee, a C-130 loadmaster, who had literally shoved pallets of ammunition to Army forces battling the Taliban. The tracks for the C-130 stuck as the Air Force cargo plane battled enemy fire to deliver its cargo. Yet, in spite of enemy fire, Sergeant Maybee made sure that the pallets reached its destination.

After the mission ended, Maybee was awarded the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, one of the Air Force’s highest medals for bravery in combat.

Yet, what made this talk better, especially on Veterans’ Day was that MSgt. (Ret.) Ned Maybee was in attendance. I got to meet him, and just like all of the other combat award winners, he was typically reticent.